Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administration’s messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show.

The latest White House documents delivered to House Republicans on Friday again highlight the extent to which senior administration officials braced for the fallout as Solyndra – a company President Obama had personally visited – was about to go under.

A White House memo that noted the danger of “imminent bankruptcy” at the end of August 2011 says, “OMB, DPC and NEC have been working with press and OLA to be prepared for this news to break.”

Acronym translation: OMB is the Office of Management and Budget, DPC is the Domestic Policy Council, NEC is the National Economic Council and OLA is the Office of Legal Affairs.

During his testimony several months ago on the collapse of MF Global, which resulted in the loss of about $1.6 billion in client funds, the former CEO / Chairman of the firm, Jon Corzine, told Congress that he had no idea how client funds were lost and denied ordering the intermingling of client and company funds.

As I asked late last year as info regarding the collapse of MF Global became apparent - particularly after the testimony of Corzine, when will he get his 'perp walk'? We can now add perjury to the charge of felony embezzlement that Corzine should face.

Then we have the House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight Ashbury)...

Speaking at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi addressed recent comments by Newt Gingrich referring to Obama as the "Food Stamp President" because more Americans have fallen into poverty and had to seek government assistance. According to Ms. Pelosi, this was a "Badge of Honor".

According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent; Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso, Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.

The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of them -- such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia -- haven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. What's more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.

Thomas Sowell talks this also in his column about 'Race and Rhetoric'. In this, he notes that despite receiving a huge percentage of the votes from African-Americans, it's the policies of the left that has reversed the gains they had obtained...

While many politicians and "leaders" have claimed credit for black progress, no one seems to be willing to take the blame for the retrogressions represented by higher unemployment rates, higher crime rates, and higher rates of imprisonment today. Or for the disintegration of the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of government-imposed discrimination in the Jim Crow era, but began coming apart in the wake of the expansion of the liberal welfare state and its accompanying social dogmas.

The time is long overdue to start looking beyond the prevailing political rhetoric to the hard realities.

Racial politics is rising its head in the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. The prevailing meme being promoted is that Zimmerman murdered the younger Martin because of a racial bias - and is hiding behind Florida's law by claiming that he only shot Martin in self-defense. From Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton to the New Black Panther Party - the media is being saturated with the calls for 'justice' on behalf of Trayvon Martin - where George Zimmerman is not only being tried in the media, but convicted in the media.

The mystery eyewitness said that he saw Trayvon Martin attacking and on top of George Zimmerman before he was shot - and that Zimmerman was the one who was yelling for help and being beaten by Martin...

His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman.

"When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point," John said.

Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.

It seems the default assumption may be incorrect - and its never a good thing when the mob / media decides to act on the basis of incomplete information...or to promote an agenda.

Yesterday's QH focused on political theater - where the theater was being used to drive a particular political meme or agenda as opposed to facts or cogent debate. The theater around the Administration's assault on religious freedom over their contraception, sterilization, and abortafacients mandate from Obamacare requiring these services for free for all women regardless of an organizations moral or religious objections is an example - particularly around the kerfuffle of Rush Limbaugh calling the shill Sandra Fluke a 'slut' and 'prostitute' for her call for free contraception since women students at Georgetown University Law School cannot afford $9 per month contraception.

This has highlighted the double standard in both media and politics regarding statements made by progressives and those offered by conservatives.

Rush Limbaugh comes under astroturfed assault by progressive operations like Media Matters for America - while progressives like Bill Maher and Louis C.K. get a pass for using far more vile vitriol at conservative women like Sarah Palin.

Bill Maher and Louis C.K. must have an "unfettered right" to spew their vitriol at politicians like Sarah Palin, insisted Obeidallah in a CNN.com op-ed. Such insults "come with the territory" of running for office, he told CNN host Brooke Baldwin on Thursday afternoon's Newsroom.

Obeidallah believes there is a "war on comedy" stemming from outrage over crude and vile insults made by comedians like Bill Maher and Louis C.K. Concerned for the safety of America's "proud tradition" of political satire, Obeidallah pleaded on CNN that "political comedy must be protected like political speech. It's that important."

However, in his column he trashed conservative Rush Limbaugh for attacking law student Sandra Fluke. So there should be a double-standard for entertainers who attack women politicians and those who attack regular women?

"Political comedians must be afforded the unfettered right to satirize our politicians – even if their jokes include crude words such as the ones that Maher and C.K. used about Sarah Palin," wrote Obeidallah in his column titled "Stop the War on Comedy."

"When you're attacking a public figure, someone in politics, someone like Sarah Palin who would run to be a heartbeat away from the leader of the free world, you know what? It comes with the territory," he stated on CNN Newsroom Thursday.

Also lost in the differences - When Fluke participated in the political theater of a ‘congressional testimony’, she stepped into the same public arena as Palin – and did so with a vapid argument demanding her right to get free contraception via the taxpayer was more important than the rights of the taxpayer – or religious organizations to object to her or her friends getting free contraception. She was no 'innocent' - unlike say, Bristol Palin, who continues to get vitriol from the left just because of who her mother is.

Fortunately, there are some on the left who are not accepting this vapid doublestandard. Kirsten Powers, a liberal columnist and Fox News Contributor, responded to Bill Maher's whiny NY Times Op-Ed by demanding from Maher that he 'Please start apologizing'...

“Alright, so Media Matters — that tree house of trolls who continue to disappoint their parents — are spending $100,000 on ads to unseat Rush Limbaugh,” Gutfeld said. “Remember, Rush doesn’t hold an office — he hosts a radio show. So it’s a campaign against someone simply because he hurts their feelings. Now, to parrot my acting coach, what’s the motivation? Is it really about decency? No, this is simply manufactured outrage masquerading as concern. Remember, Rush already apologized, but that didn’t matter because Media Matters really wants annihilation. After all, Rush excels at exposing tools like them. So they want his scalp.”

And regarding the joke known as the LA City Council...

“But worse, the sparrow’s nest of chirping bird brains known as the L.A. City Council just passed a resolution urging the press to curb racist, sexist slurs. Well, why don’t they say what they really want to ban? Their parents. I haven’t seen such a pathetic bunch since the Academy Awards. Folks, we’ve got to wake up — the national debate is being steered by unelected group of operatives willing abetted by politicians who are supposed to raise our standard of living, but instead focus on raising awareness. I’d start a campaign to get them fired but I have a life.”

Rick Santorum continues to attack Mitt Romney on being a flip flopper / Obama lite using the 'etch a sketch' reference that started with the Romney Campaign's Communication Director. However, he's also finding that his own statement made midweek that since Romney and Obama are virtually indistinguishable in their policies, we might as well stay with Obama has put him on the defensive. He spent much of Friday trying to walk back the comment - to the point that he is getting very testy about questions on his gaffe.

1603 - Queen Elizabeth I dies after ruling England for 44 years. King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne as King James I.

1664 - A charter to colonize Rhode Island was granted to Roger Williams in London.

1765 - British Parliament passes the Quartering Act - requiring the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.

1975 - North Vietnam launches it's 'Ho Chi Minh Campaign' - the final push from the South Vietnamese Central Highlands to the capital city of Saigon. By April 27th, Saigon was completely surrounded and fell on April 30th.

1989 - The Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska - creating the worst oil spill in US territory. 11 million gallons of oil was released in the grounding.

1999 - NATO commences airstrikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian military positions in Kosovo. The attacks are in response to a new wave of ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces against Kosovar Albanians.

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